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Russia hoax prosecutor Andy Weissmann looks to prosecute Trump after pardons
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s lead prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said during an MSNBC interview that President Trump could face charges over his pardons of Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, and Charles Kushner. Weissmann claims the pardons are an act of obstruction of justice.
On Wednesday, during MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” he said that President Donald Trump’s pardons of Paul Manafort and Roger Stone mean they can be forced to testify against him.
Maddow then said that “once a person has been pardoned for specific crimes, they can’t escape having to testify about anything that comes within the scope of their pardon in the future.”
President Donald Trumppardoned more than two dozen people, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law, in the latest wave of clemency to benefit longtime associates and supporters.
The actions, in Trump s waning time at the White House, bring to nearly 50 the number of people whom the president has granted clemency in the last week.
The list from the last two days includes not only multiple people convicted in the investigation into the Trump campaign s ties to Russia but also allies from Congress and other felons whose causes were championed by friends.
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The coronavirus is raging across America.
Trump remains silent about it, abdicating his responsibility for the health, safety, and well being of Americans while derailing congressional legislation and COVID relief measures as he flies off to Florida for the holidays.
But the outgoing president did find the time between promoting voter fraud conspiracies and seditious actions to pardon war criminals and everyone convicted in Robert Muller s special council investigation of RussiaGate.
On MSNBC Wednesday night, Andrew Weissmann, the former senior member of special counsel Robert Mueller s team and former head of the criminal fraud section at the justice department who prosecuted Manafort explained to Rachel Maddow that the Russiagate coverup was completed with Trump s latest round of pardons.